Over 26% of U.S. adults with a normal BMI met new criteria for clinical obesity proposed by the Lancet commission. About 78% of adults had excess adiposity if defined by using two or three abnormal ...

Are you getting enough vitamin B12? Even if you’re taking supplements, a recent study found that the “normal” guidelines may still be leaving you deficient in this key nutrient. A new study from the ...

To know more about it, we asked Dr Vimala Chapala, Senior Consultant in Obstetrics, Gynaecology, and Infertility at Cloudnine Group of Hospitals, Varthur, Bengaluru, to explain everything. Beta-HCG is ...

Older women with lower levels of serum albumin and a lower prognostic nutritional index (PNI) had an increased risk for fractures. Lower albumin levels were also linked to poorer physical function and ...

In a multicenter randomized clinical trial of 440 patients with septic shock, albumin replacement therapy targeting serum levels ≥ 3.0 g/dL did not reduce 90-day mortality compared with standard ...

We are right now on the cusp of the start of the seasonal water level rise on the Great Lakes. Let’s look at the status of the Great Lakes water levels. The snowmelt over the past few weeks has ...

Objectives Disease activity assessment is important for Crohn’s disease (CD) management, since it involves the initial and subsequent therapeutic schedule. The purpose of this study is to identify a ...

Researchers found that a majority of studies on coastal sea levels underestimated how high water levels are, and hundreds of millions of people are closer to peril than previously thought. By Sachi ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising new hero in the fight against one of the world’s deadliest fungal infections: albumin, the most abundant protein in human blood. In a major international study, ...

Hypoproteinemia, which occurs in diverse clinical conditions, can cause a range of complications such as thrombosis, which is among the most serious and potentially life-threatening. Albumin is a ...

After taking into account kidney function and other factors, the researchers found that people with moderate levels of the protein albumin in their urine (30-299 mg/g) had a 25 percent higher risk of ...